Boring phases at your job

[FPAlpha]

So a couple of weeks i was approached by my boss if i would like to work a while in a foreign country (it's about 230km away from my place so not really such a huge trip).
Naturally i said yes.. all expenses paid, i got a company car and the company pays for my appartment.

The customer in this warehouse is moving his goods to our warehouse in Germany and we are sent here to finish up the process and organise the transports.

I was excited.. new town, new job (well.. not really but new processess) and when all is done a little bit of extra cash (won|t have to fuel my car, food is paid and i get a bit etra money).

Now i've arrived and the job is boring as hell. We have something to do about 3 times a day for a bout half an hour and the rest is spent waiting until the new batch of orders come in.
I'm bored out of my mind and i'm only here 3 days. Luckily i can use the internet for private purposes here (not allowed at my original workplace) so i can surf a bit (fortunately because there's no internet at my appartment and it would be too much hassle to set it up for 2.5 months).

Anyone experience something similar? Bored out of your mind at yout job?

 

[Miss Chicken]

The only job I ever found boring was working in a law library.

I really only had two main chores - photo copying and updating loose-leaf files. When I updated a loose leaf file I would sometimes have a package of hundreds of pages and a list that would go something like this

Remove page 5-7 and replace with pages 5-7
Remove pages 15-30 and replace with 15-22
Remove page 127 and replace with pages 127-130

etc etc

 

[ancientone51]

The four days coming up next week...Monitoring the TAKS testing.

And Miss Chicken it sounds like the updating of Military Regulations in the old days.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

If I had phasers at my job, it would never be boring.

If some boring person was bothering me, I'd just stun them. If I had a pile of borning work, I'd disintigrate it.

A phaser would look cool hanging on my belt next to my flip cell phone. I'd always wear my gold sweater. Fuck the tie. I've got a phaser.

 

[Plecostomus]

Well now that I have a helper to handle the daily purchasing routine I'm either up to my nose in CAD work or out running prototypes on the machines.

Yesterday I spent the day cutting test blocks with our new HURCO mill to ensure that it's as accurate as they claim and to fully understand all the new functions and options.

That included a boring phase, once I got the boring bar setup and the control calibrated it enlarged the hole no problem. Rather exciting stuff really, the old Okuma mill didn't have a boring mode.

 

[Sledder]

I have them regularly at my job, I'm IT support so if things are running smoothly there can be days with very little activity. So I get paid to surf the web on those days.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Work in general is boring to me. I hate being under someone else's authority. I'd rather be doing something on my own time at my own pace. I work to survive.

 

[Danoz]

I had a job once that involved me sitting on night shift in case somebody got locked out of their dorm. I used the time to study for my Japanese exams and made up thousands of flashcards. You could.... take on a foreign language?

 

[gwud]

I sit with a head set on and don't even get calls. I've supposed to be helping people and feeling good about my job but I've been doing it for three and a bit weeks and have taken 8 calls. I'm going through a boring spell at the moment. I kill the time by annoying the person next to me - it's fun!

 

[K'Ehleyr]

^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdGL-So_EO0&feature=related

*LOL*

 

[gwud]

^ We've already done that, we were told to stop.

 

[blablover5]

Bacteria don't grow fast enough so I spend quite a lot of down time just waiting and twiddling my thumbs.

I'm thinking I need to look into getting some P32 to speed these suckers up.

 

[Lindley]

I'm not currently on any projects that are doing a whole lot of development right now. I'm filling my time taking some changes I made on one CVS branch back to the trunk, but it's pretty lame really.

 

[NickInABox]

I usually go through five phases at work:

1) Denial
2) Anger
3) Bargaining
4) Depression
5) Acceptance

 

[Garrovick]

I'm my current form of self employment..

Waiting for paint to dry

Waiting for cement to cure.

 

[auntiehill]

I work from home, and now is the slowest season of the year for what I do.

I'm lucky to get 4 hours of work a day for the next week and a half, and then will have two weeks off--unpaid--until things pick up again the middle of May.

Dull and Boring is my world.

 

[Mallory]

I'm not currently on any projects that are doing a whole lot of development right now. I'm filling my time taking some changes I made on one CVS branch back to the trunk, but it's pretty lame really.

Better you than me. I hate doing that stuff, but then I spent 20 years in an environment without any version control at all (or manual systems for doing it).

I've actually been pretty busy this year so far, been working on one project and worked my way onto a second one last week. So no boredom at the moment.

 

[AdAstra]

So a couple of weeks i was approached by my boss if i would like to work a while in a foreign country (it's about 230km away from my place so not really such a huge trip).

Sounds like Liège to me or the Netherlands to me! Not places where I would like to end up in.

 

[Lookingglassman]

My job is pretty boring, but at least I work with a bunch of soldiers and all we do is talk bad about each other and family members, listen to sex stories, talk about what we would do to the middle east and somalia if we were president and surf the internet.

 

[FPAlpha]

So a couple of weeks i was approached by my boss if i would like to work a while in a foreign country (it's about 230km away from my place so not really such a huge trip).

Sounds like Liège to me or the Netherlands to me! Not places where I would like to end up in.

Luxemburg actually.. i work in Bascharage and have my appartment in Esch near the city centre (about a 20 minute commute)